The ELA is the Canadian national association interested in historical and current issues about libraries, archives, publishing houses, and related institutions and people. Membership is open to all interested parties, but is primarily drawn from the ranks of retired ​pesons.

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The ELA is the Canadian national association interested in historical and current issues about libraries, archives, publishing houses, and related institutions and people. Membership is open to all interested parties, but is primarily drawn from the ranks of retired ​persons.\\

​* ELA's [[:​meetings:​annual_general_meeting|Annual General Meeting]]. ELA members meet annually at an AGM. The 2015 annual meeting will be held on Monday, Nov. 2nd, 9:30 a.m. at the Northern District Branch of the Toronto Public Library. Details to follow.

ELAN is ELA's newsletter of articles, reminiscences,​ pictures, and news;

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ELAN is ELA's newsletter of articles, reminiscences,​ pictures, and news;\\

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​* ELAN published ​[[:​elan:​newsletter_list#​indexes_prepared_by_jean_wheeler|list of issues available]] for persual;

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​* ELAN published [[:​elan:​newsletter_list|list of issues available]] for viewing;

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* thanks to the work of Jean Wheeler, [[:​elan:​newsletter_list|two indexes ​to ELAN's issues ​are available]] ​to help locate people and subjects. The first index covers ​the years 1987 to 1999 and the second index covers the period 2000 to 2009.

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* thanks to the work of Agatha Barc, [[:​elan:​newsletter_list|a master index to ELAN's issues ​is available]] ​covering ​the years 1987 to 2016.

* ELAN volunteers: opportunities to contribute ​articles and book reviews.

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===== What historical resources ​have we been responsible for? =====

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===== ELA'​s ​historical resources =====

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[[:​history:​history_mainpage|main page]]

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[[:​history:​history_mainpage|main page]]\\

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* ELA is producing a database of [[:​history:​biographies:​biography_mainpage|Biographies of Librarians and Information Professionals in Canada]], a significant part of whose lives was spent in libraries, archives, publishing and related information fields;

* ELA is producing a database of [[:​history:​biographies:​biography_mainpage|Biographies of Librarians and Information Professionals in Canada]], a significant part of whose lives was spent in libraries, archives, publishing and related information fields;